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uk.tech.digital-tv (Digital TV - General)(uk.tech.digital-tv) Discussion of all matters technical in origin related to the reception of digital television transmissions, be they via satellite, terrestrial or cable. Advertising is forbidden, with no exceptions.

Microsoft says that Flash content won't even be loaded, "improving
performance, battery life, and security." If you frequent a site that relies
on the feature, don't worry, as you'll still be able to enable it on-demand.
When visiting a page that requires it, you'll be given the option to either
allow it once, or always.

In article , Phi wrote:
"Andy Burns" wrote in message
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Phi wrote:
Will the Beeb change to HTML5 ?

They pretty well have for current pages; doubt they'll ever revisit
old pages using flash.

'This Morning' requires flash which is pretty current.

You'd need to give more details on how you are accessing that, and what
format, etc, you're using compared with when you get HTML5/DASH. Is it
iplayer live, listen again, or non-iplayer, for example, that you mean?
What user software?

AIUI For a long time now the BBC have provided alternatives to flash for
iplayer use, and it is then up to the way your OS and user software access
and present to the BBC systems.

On occasion they have had server problems which may mean non-flash doesn't
work correctly. But otherwise you should find alternatives are provided.
Possible exceptions for programme-specific 'podcasts', etc, which aren't
handled via iplayer.

I have a machine without 'Flash' that leaves BBC programmes foundering. My
other machine with 'Flash' lets BBC programmes play.

"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
news
I thought the idea was for a page to see what you have on your machine and
send the data in the appropriate form. This surely has to happen already
for Apple devices??
Brian

In article , Phi wrote:
I have a machine without 'Flash' that leaves BBC programmes foundering.
My other machine with 'Flash' lets BBC programmes play.

I use get-iplayer (the free and open script, not the BBC come-lately of the
same name). For many months now all my BBC iPlayer files for TV have been
fetched via HLS (IIRC). Radio via MPEG-DASH. Only needed flash modes
(which didn't require me to run flash anyway) when there was a server
mix-up.

As I think has been explained in the past to others, the iPlayer may (try
to) send via the flash modes if your user software doesn't let it know you
want the moder modern methods and seems to accept flash mode. No idea what
any non-iPlayer 'downloads' may do.